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Assessment Learning Exchange

A collaborative exchange among AALHE members

Assessment Learning Exchange (ALE) is a gathering of assessment practitioners to share experiences informally, reflect on their practices, gather new ideas, and experience a sense of community through themed conversations. Initiated in 2020, ALE aims to match AALHE members for themed assessment conversations. In ALE, participants exchange their experiences, listen, receive feedback, and engage in wondering and pondering about a pre-selected focal topic. 

Optimize Your Workflow and Find Your Rhythm

The Assessment Learning Exchange (ALE) Committee invites all members of AALHE, seasoned or new assessment practitioners, to join our next ALE gathering on the topic: Optimize Your Workflow and Find Your Rhythm. 

Date: 2/12/2025, 3-4:15pm ET / 2-3:15pm CT / 12-1:15pm PT

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Description: Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant demands of assessment work? Come and explore with peers how to stay grounded and centered as an assessment professional while wearing many hats and juggling multiple roles. Exchange ideas on how to create a sustainable workflow, foster a peaceful work environment, and cope with external challenges beyond your control. Through shared stories and experiences, this event will empower you to discover areas within your control, build resilience, and reinforce your role as a guiding, reassuring presence in your institution's assessment journey. Find your rhythm, share your story, and leave inspired. Join us!

Contact [email protected] for any questions.

Hold time on your calendar for other upcoming ALEs in 2025:

  • May 14, 2025: 3:00-4:15 ET

FAQs

Who can participate?

AALHE members.

Do I need to be an expert on the topic?

No, certainly not! You should have some experience with the topic so you can contribute to the conversation and ask questions.

Can you explain how this works?

In each ALE session, you will join 3 to 6 peers in a Zoom breakout room and converse about a pre-selected focal topic/issue and its subtopics. The facilitator will guide the discussions on:

  • Successful strategies that you carried out or experienced.
  • Challenges that you experience and one area that you would like feedback on
  • Exchange of ideas and thoughts
  • Summarizing group takeaways   

Tip: before each conversation, prepare one experience to share (a learning moment or a moment you’d like advice on) and one area that you want to seek feedback.

How will we meet? What technology is needed?

The ALE will take place in Zoom breakout rooms each with 3-6 participants in facilitated informal conversations in breakout rooms, representing different topical areas or contexts.

What will I get out of the ALE?

Participation in the ALE will help you:

  • enhance your practice while helping others to do increasingly valuable assessment work;
  • develop new networks, meet new people, and strengthen bonds;
  • advance the professionalism of assessment practitioners and scholars;
  • contribute to scholarships that will advance the field.

Some ALE conversations may seed larger projects or longer-term collaborations. We encourage you to consider how your ALE conversations could result in an AALHE conference presentation, webinar, workshop, or article in an AALHE publication.

Who can I contact for more information?
Email us at [email protected]

Recent ALE Topics:

11/13/24 Using Assessment Results for Action Planning
8/7/2024 Engaging Faculty & Building Partnership for Collaborative Assessment Meeting Summary
5/8/2024 Integrating AI for Curriculum Development and Programmatic Assessment (AI for Learning Assessment Padlet)
2/14/2024 Equitable and Useful Assessment Reporting at Varying Levels for Different Stakeholders
11/08/2023 Challenges and Opportunities of AI in Assessing Students’ Learning
06/21/2023 Using Assessment Results for Continuous Improvement
05/24/2023 Assessing in Difficult Areas to Quantify
02/22/2023 Using Assessment Results for Continuous Improvement